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Episode NotesJulie Ann Segal inspired me to change the energy in my clothes closet and bedroom. With my daughter Olivia’s help, I removed 11 grocery bags full of blazers, blouses, t-shirts, purses, pants, and other clothes I no longer needed. Her decluttering ideas inspired me and will inspire you too. Decluttering is where we jump into our conversation to develop a Feng Shui Practice using five energy tools and five elements. Her new book, Change Your Space to Change Your Life, will be available in bookstores starting July 8, 2023. Julie Ann Segal is an interior designer, Feng Shui consultant, and the owner of Metro Interiors, a design firm dedicated to creating beautiful spaces through mindfulness, energy, and intention. Julie Ann is also the author of her new book, as I mentioned above, Change Your Space to Change Your Life (2023). Always on the cutting edge, Julie Ann’s dynamic approach utilizes styles from eclectic to classic, modern to traditional. Blending the ancient art of Feng Shui with various contemporary Interior Design practices, Metro Interiors redesigns spaces to reveal environments rich in comfort, beauty, balance, and harmony. She wants to bring this into your spaces.We learned last week about Julie Ann’s writing journey, the foundation of Feng shui, and how Julie Ann designs spaces. There are three ways to live with intention: energy, design goals, and tools. Julie Ann introduced a Be-Do-Have exercise to help us clarify what we want. This exercise is good to do every year.Julie Ann starts chapter three of her book with what practicing Feng Shui means. Practicing Feng Shui reminds me of when Matthew, Olivia, and I switched to plant-based (vegan) living. Individually, we educated ourselves to understand why we were doing it and what it would take to make the change. Our two-month commitment has continued into a lifestyle we cherish two and a half years later. We added flexibility to ensure we could do it in almost all spaces. We now say we are 98% vegan. Sometimes, in some spaces, options to eat cleanly are not possible. Little did we know, our decision to become plant-based had a ripple effect on our relationships, even with strangers.I once went to Papa Murphy’s to get a couple of pizzas to share a meal with friends. It took three times for the pizza maker to create a vegan pizza. She got everything right up until the cheese. She would grab the regular cheese instead of the alternative vegan cheese out of habit. She increased her awareness through the process and kept her energy in the spirit of getting my order right. We laughed hysterically even after I went to grab a couple of salads, only to realize every salad had meat, cheese, or egg on it. Since then, the Papa Murphy’s Pizza near us has added plant-based salad options. A positive change had a positive result.There is a ripple effect when we change our spaces to change our life positively,

Episode 370: Change Your Space to Change Your Life with Julie Ann Segal

Episode NotesToday is Memorial Day to honor those who have died while serving in the U.S. military.  Commemorate this day as you see fit whether attending memorial services, gravesites, participating in parades, working, or gathering with family and friends. We honor those who have served with prayers, peaceful energy, and humility.______________________Julie Ann Segal and I have known each other since 2017. She participated in one of my 12-month WeMentor LABs to evolve how she led as she redesigned Metro Interiors, her business. In March 2019, we did a WeMentor Mini LAB: Designing Your Office, Home, and Life with Vision Boards. This was where I learned about Feng Shui, a four-thousand-year-old Chinese philosophy used to create balance and harmony in ourselves and the environments through the art of placement.Feng means “wind,” and Shui means “water,” two elements we can integrate into our spaces to balance and harmonize the energy around us. Julie Ann introduced us to new ways of putting a vision board together. She is doing some ‘live’ local vision board classes in June and August 2023.Julie Ann joined me for two podcast conversations about the concepts she now has in her new book Change Your Space to Change Your Life: elevate your energy with Feng Shui, one room at a time. You can purchase her book beginning July 8, 2023. Both discussions can be found in this Episode’s Resource section at wementor.com. Type Julie Ann Segal in the search bar, and this episode will appear.There are three ways to live with intention: energy, design goals, and tools. In this, our third podcast conversation, Julie Ann shares design inspiration from Change Your Space to Change Your Life.  We begin with Julie Ann’s writing journey and then discuss the first part of Julie Ann’s book about Living with Intention—the foundation of feng shui and design.Caroline Patrick Bor-Nei, a master educator of Feng Shui and author of Diary of a Feng Shiu Consultant and Visual Artist, writes this. “Julie is truly a special, unique, and talented designer who has devoted her career to learning from the most valued master teachers about the art of placement, known as Feng Shui. Her ability to understand these ancient teachings is of great benefit to her clients during these modern-day challenges. Combining her knowledge of design, Feng Shui flow ideas, and a pure heart, her book reveals these qualities that can be incorporated into your living and working spaces.”Julie Ann Segal is an interior designer, Feng Shui consultant, and the owner of Metro Interiors, a design firm dedicated to creating beautiful spaces through mindfulness, energy, and intention.  Blending the ancient art of Feng Shui with various contemporary Interior Design practices, Metro Interiors redesigns spaces to reveal environments rich in comfort, beauty, balance, and harmony. Always on the cutting edge, Julie Ann’s dynamic approach utilizes styles from eclectic to classic, modern to traditional. She wants to bring this into your spaces.ENERGYDid you know our thoughts go into our spaces? I recall Oprah Winfrey describing a sign above her office door that said, “You are responsible for the energy you bring into this room.” This is why grounding our energy and clarifying our intentions are so important.Julie Ann’s writing journey began with a thought as a teenager. Decades later, a wiser Julie Ann has a lot for you to discover as you change your space to change your life. Below are some of the benefits Julie Ann and many of her clients have experienced from a Feng Shui practice.* Reaching your goals faster* Enhancing your wealth* Having more peace in your life* Letting go of the past* Lifting your spirits or inspiring you* Improving your health* Giving you more energyHer book is timely as we continue to create a work/life balance from the home o...

Episode 369: A Tribute to My Cherished Mentor, Barbara Winter

Episode Notes

I participated in an online Celebration of Life for Barbara J. Winter on May 20th, 2023. Barbara crossed over to the other side on October 28, 2022, at age 80, after suffering from a long illness. Our paths had overlapped many times since our first luncheon in 1994. This is my tribute to my cherished mentor, Barbara Winter. 

Barbara will forever be known as the pioneering self-employment advocate, writer, and teacher who spent decades pondering the question, “Why aren’t we all self-employed?” Her optimism and ferocious curiosity will live on in millions who read her books and newsletters and attended her seminars. Her legacy will be carried on through her daughter Jennie Hinrichs and her three grandchildren: Zoe, Zach, and Noah. “I want my grandchildren to know that Grandma’s house is always a safe place to share their ideas,” she said in our Portfolios of Ideas podcast conversation. Tears are spilling down my cheeks as I listen and think of how much her grandchildren miss her. Her spirit will always be with them. Barbara is one of those people I wish had defied death.

In 1994, I noticed Barbara lived in Minneapolis after reading the book she authored in 1993, Making A Living Without A Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love. The book was revised and reprinted in 2009 and is still relevant today. She agreed to have lunch at one of her favorite spots, and now mine, the Good Earth restaurant at the Galleria in Edina, Minnesota. She would bring ten books in a brown paper bag each month and share stories with advice tucked in. We did this lunch and book routine until she followed her daughter to Valencia, California, where she lived until her death. I would buy her books and give them to clients. When I taught at two private Universities for 13 years in entrepreneurship, her book was mandatory reading.

Barbara named a seminar after her book, Making A Living Without A Job. It became her most popular seminar. She never envisioned teaching this seminar worldwide and holding annual joyfully jobless jamborees for decades, but she did. She said she would wake up on each seminar day and think that someone’s life is going to change today. Her enthusiasm was her litmus test to keep going. She added other newsletters and seminars to her repertoire: Winning Ways monthly newsletter, Joyfully Jobless, Establish Yourself As An Expert, and I wouldn’t say I like Marketing.

The celebration of life event fit Barbara’s desire to educate. She was a massive fan of creating tip lists. Barbara always taught the nine lessons below. Her colleagues and friends, Terri Belford and Marianne Cantwell shared them with us, and in turn, I would like to share them with you.

9 Lessons for Leading and Living by Barbara Winter

 

* Be Playful. Barbara was a big proponent of approaching work as play and having a sense of humor, especially around absurd situations and or being playful at your work. She was a great role model. “An acid test for if you are in the right place,” Barbara would say, “is when the work becomes more interesting the longer you do it.”

* Treat what you do with a sense of adventure and lightness. She made everything an adventure wonder. She shared her passion for the artist Chu Huly with everyone. She had a lifetime of missions that took her all over the world with friends and colleagues.

* Let yourself be an apprentice. Have a beginner’s mindset and learn from those who have gone before you. We learn by doing.

* Do the thing that others wouldn’t do. Roll up your sleeves and get to work realizing your dreams. Barbara always said that entrepreneurship is not a spectator’s sport.

* Small is beautiful.

Episode 368: 6 Ways to Ensure Integrity in Your Business Records, Part IV

 

Episode Notes

A sixth way to ensure integrity in your business records is to create a culture of belonging. A culture of belonging promotes integrity. When people feel they belong, they show you who they are, warts and all. No pretenses, no games. No acting out. We are more inclined to do what is best for ourselves and others with a motivation toward the greater good.  

Belonging is essential to humans, so why are we so bad at creating a culture of belonging at work? We even have difficulty creating belonging in our own families. Fifty-two percent of Americans feel lonely.

 “Isolation is being by yourself. Loneliness is not liking it.” – Unknown Author.

The simple answer to why we are so bad at creating a culture of belonging is that we live what we know and what is taught and role modeled. We haven’t been taught how to belong, even though it is a universal human need. In business, creating a culture of belonging was an outlandish idea until the Covid-19 pandemic hit and the epidemic of loneliness began.

Journalist and critic Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein is coming out with a book called Tyranny At Work. It is about “the authoritarian design of the American workplace and the tools and laws–from “at-will employment, to coercive contracts, surveillance, employer-driven debt, and mandatory arbitration–that make us uniquely unfree on the job. She reveals how much of our lives are spent outside of democracy and what a different arrangement might look like.” Last year, she wrote an article about How Life as a Trucker Devolved Into a Dystopian Nightmare.

We know how to divide and conquer. We know how to isolate and alienate one another. We know how to support specific people and cultures. We know how to be fiercely independent. We know how to compete. We don’t know how to create a business culture and home life that supports interdependence, unconditional love, and belonging.

Research Professor Brené Brown defines belonging as “the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and seeking approval, which is hollow substitutes for belonging and often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

Accepting ourselves gives those we lead permission to accept themselves. The avenue to accepting ourselves is taking 100% responsibility for our lives so we can feel engaged, hopeful, grateful, excited, confident, inspired, joyful, exhilarated, refreshed, and peaceful. Those are the feelings we experience when we regularly meet our universal human needs.

Belonging is part of our universal human need to connect. We must feel acceptance, appreciation, closeness, communication, consideration, safety, security, and community to connect and feel we belong. We must see and be seen, which takes compassion.

If you create a culture of belonging where people feel they truly belong, you feel connected to those you work with, even if you have differences. We develop a better understanding of another, which expands our ability to have empathy and exercise compassion. When we work without compassion, we succumb to the era of narcissism, entitlement, and incivility. Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D., coined the phrase.

Episode 367: 6 Ways to Ensure Integrity in Your Business Records, Part III

Episode Notes

I intended this series to be in two parts, but guess what? I can’t do it! I approach this topic and business ownership from a holistic perspective; everything we do in our businesses is interconnected and influenced by us, from our energy and intentions to the rules, boundaries, and limitations we set in operating our businesses, business records included. This kind of approach to ensure integrity in our business records takes forethought.

A holistic approach to business ownership considers the effect of one thing upon another. Let's take 100% responsibility for our actions and require that of our staff. We see a different level of energy, communication, and adherence to rules, boundaries, and limitations throughout the company with each interaction and transaction in the business.

Integrity is encouraged, and the systems we put in place validate our intentions, adhere to rules governing businesses, support boundary-keeping, and acknowledge limitations. With our intentions attuned to our values, we know what is okay and what is not okay and why. We are clear about which rules to abide by or reconsider and which limitations to work around or challenge.

Last weekend we visited Thai Table with a friend, a family-owned restaurant in Plymouth, MN. We love supporting small businesses. We bring cash for the meal. This business likes saving us money by encouraging cash payment. This keeps them from passing on the cost of offering credit card options for payment to their patrons. We appreciate their conscientiousness. As patrons of Thai Table, we assume that those cash payments are appropriately accounted for and reported on their tax forms like any cash-based business.

All cash-based revenue must be reported to the IRS to operate with integrity. You could be under the IRS threshold for reporting the revenue. I know people choose to refrain from reporting cash-based income for many reasons.

If that is not the case, revisit what you are doing and why you are doing it. This raises your awareness. I am not talking about excuse-making to defend your decision. I encourage you to notice how you feel. If you feel like you are getting away with something or justifying your decision and feel ashamed or embarrassed when you tell someone. This is what I call an energy leak. You are releasing your integrity a little spurt of energy at a time. These kinds of energy leaks deplete our energy and leave us feeling incompetent in running our businesses.

When you become aware of an energy leak, please find a way to seal it up. If your business needs to generate more money to pay the costs associated with running a business, this could be the source of your next innovation.

Let the generating of ideas begin. Revisit your business model. Maybe you aren’t charging enough because you don’t know the exact cost of doing business. And you don’t know what it would take to thrive in business because you don’t know how to project out into the future. Or some other reason.

This kind of “curiosity thinking” leads us to the fifth way to ensure integrity in your business records. Increase your proficiency in money management.

#5 Increase your proficiency in money management.

If you are proficient at something, you are competent or skilled at doing it. You may be adept at making money but not managing the money you generate because you are too busy doing other things to get into the details of financial profitability and prosperity thinking.

An effective way to increase your proficiency in money management is to learn more about it. The more we understand our energy and the energy exchanges we do with money, the quicker we can catch when we are bleeding money and losing control of ourselves and our business.

Episode 366: 6 Ways to Ensure Integrity in Your Business

Episode Notes

Where there is a business, there are humans. Where there are humans, there are needs. Where there are needs, there are opportunities to meet those human needs. When we neglect meeting human needs, humans get off track and fall out of integrity.

Business records can help us maintain integrity in how we do business if we intend to operate a business with integrity. I have teased the content into bite-sized, digestible parts to support your journey to using the following six ways to ensure integrity in your business records.

Summary

Last week I outlined the first three ways to ensure integrity in your business records, starting with you. Today you will learn the 4th  way to ensure integrity in your business records after summarizing the first three.

Business records build confidence and trust within the business, customers, and communities. Business records also help us track where we have been, where we are, and where we are going, and they can save us thousands and millions of dollars. According to Wikipedia, “business records are documents (hard copy or digital) that capture an act, condition, or event related to the business.”

Building confidence and trust in business starts with the business owner(s) and entrepreneurial leader. This is why the #1 way to ensure integrity with business records is to do a self-leadership integrity assessment. Answer these questions:

* What are my core values? What are my business’s core values and mission?

* Am I willing to live according to my core values and meet my seven universal human needs of physical well-being, honesty, play, peace, autonomy, meaning, and connection?

* Do I have a path to get back on track when I run a relationship in the ditch?

* What about those I employ and contract? Can I create a path to help them get back on track?

* Am I open to course corrections, making amends, and doing better?

* If the answer to all of the questions above, except the first one, is yes, you can live and lead with integrity. Go on to #2. If your answer is no, find a way to answer yes, then proceed. If you need help, reach out to me.

The 2nd way to ensure integrity in your business records is to set high communication and accountability standards by requiring everyone to take 100% responsibility for what they think, feel, say, and do. This sets the tone letting everyone know that mistakes happen. What we do after making a mistake is the focus—taking responsibility for fixing the error, learning from the mistake, or finding a different solution. New ideas can come from mistakes, so train people to look at mistakes as opportunities for personal and business growth.

* Start regular accountability meetings that promote mutual respect and mutual purpose with who does what, when, and by when with a follow-up. Brainstorm potential barriers to deadlines and commitments and instill natural consequences if responsibilities aren’t fulfilled.

The 3rd way is to build an ethical organization around information and communication. Modify your mindset and know the purpose of documenting the act, condition, or business event. Because the act, condition, or business event needing documentation doesn’t always generate income, business owners can get sloppy running their businesses, leading to problems with the IRS, cashflow issues, data entry, employee problems, legal issues, etc.

I appreciate management guru Peter F. Drucker’s pragmatic approach to improving work relationships. Instead of building in layers of hierarchy, which promotes disconnection,

Episode 365: 6 Ways to Ensure Integrity in Your Business Records, Part I

 Episode NotesIntegrity with business records and operations is where I like to start with clients—learning how they run their businesses and how they feel as entrepreneurial leaders. What are their vision, mission, and core values? What is working and what isn’t? What plans, systems, and processes do they have in place? What is their immediate need?According to Wikipedia, “business records are documents (hard copy or digital) that capture an act, condition, or event related to the business.” Business records are meant to build confidence and trust within the business, with customers, and with communities.The act, condition, or business event triggers the need for documentation. We generate a sale, for example. The income is deposited in a business checking account. A bookkeeper records the deposit in an accounting system. More sales are recorded. A weekly financial report is tallied for a financial meeting. Meeting notes record the decisions made during the session, and new financial goals are projected. At the end of a fiscal year, an accountant uses the bookkeeping system to file tax reports for the IRS to determine how much is taxable income. The federal and state taxes we pay keep our society in order through public services such as the federal budget, social security, healthcare, public infrastructure, defense, etc.Other business records include internal company policies and regulatory requirements for stockholders and investors. Having integrity with our business records means complete and accurate record-keeping that has uniformity throughout the business’s lifecycle.Integrity is being truthful in what we think, feel, say, and do. For example, when everyone follows the same accounting principles, stakeholders have greater faith that the story those financial statements tell is trustworthy. Setting up systems, communications, and processes that support your business’s mission and core values encourages those working with you to record the act, condition, or event accurately.Below are three of six ways to ensure integrity in your business records. I will share the other three next Monday. Three of six ways to ensure integrity in your business records.1. Do a self-leadership integrity assessment.Am I saying what I mean and doing what I say? Know your core values and ask yourself if you are living those values. If so, excellent. If not, identify your core values and commit to living them without compromising them in difficult circumstances. Allow yourself to get back on track. Recommit to living your values every day and keep going.Imagine handling financial pressure with ease. Instead of succumbing to numbing, avoiding, or other coping vices, stay present. Identify how you feel, and determine what those feelings are trying to reveal; you may need to adjust your goals or initiate a sales activity to relieve some of the financial pressure. Decide the next best thing to do.Example. My core values are wholeheartedness (compassion, connection, and courage) and respect.Bookkeeping was not my forte when I started my business in 1992. It still isn’t, but I learned whom to hire and how to organize the volume of paperwork that accompanies business ownership.In the beginning, I frequently became overwhelmed and let the paperwork pile up until it was a crisis. Crisis-to-crisis leadership was how I managed my business.I realized that I needed help to shift my crisis-to-crisis leadership mentality by taking charge of how I was leading. My disorganization was disrupting my self-connection.

Episode 364: What the World Needs Now is Integrity in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Episode NotesWhy does the world need integrity in entrepreneurial leadership now? We have always needed the skillset and mindset of entrepreneurs to evolve and revolutionize our world. Integrity has always been an important leadership value. Why is it highly relevant now?This topic comes from my inherent concern regarding entrepreneurial leaders with harmful intentions using our legal system interminably to delay justice and accountability. And how many laws can one break? Astonishingly, a lot. This brings me to ask more questions.Why are we allowing leaders, who lack integrity, egregiously break our laws, and have a sinister vision that is destroying our democracy, to not only hold the highest offices in the land but profit from doing so? If our democracy is everything to us, why are we the people, allowing a political party to prioritize their rights above all others? Why are we allowing ill-intentioned political entrepreneurs to disregard standards of decency, violate ethical principles and laws, and outpace accountability guardrails?Where others see problems, entrepreneurs see opportunities. Where entrepreneurs see opportunities, they solve problems. When ethical entrepreneurs solve problems, they add societal value.While pondering these big questions and sifting through the emotions that come from feeling unsettled and concerned about all of us, I devised an Eight Integrity Checkpoints exercise to bridge the gap between our professed values, how we live, and the leaders we support. Each checkpoint pair begins with a question you can ask yourself and a second question in reference to a leader you support.Read through each question. These questions are thought-provoking so allow time to reflect. I suggest returning to this exercise after you read the rest of these notes and listen to this episode. I give examples in the audio. You decide what works best for you. Eight Integrity Checkpoints* How am I taking 100% responsibility for what I think, feel, say, and do?* How does the leader I support take 100% responsibility for what they think, feel, say, and do?* What are my two core values, without which I feel off track and lost? Or, I get angry when someone doesn’t respect my values.* Are the words, feelings, and actions of the leader I support aligned with my core values? How do I know? What are their core values?* Reflecting on my life, am I living my core values?* As I reflect on the leader I support, are they living their core values?* How am I being or leading the change I want to make in the world?* What change does the leader I support role model to the world?The Research Rabbit HoleIntegrity in entrepreneurial leadership initially felt easy for me to discuss. I work with clients daily to live what they value and value how they live. I have written and taught about having integrity, and I hold myself accountable to integrity guideposts, my core values of wholeheartedness (compassion, connection, and courage) and respect.Instead, the research rabbit hole I entered ignited unresolved hurts such as anguish, despair, sadness, grief, and dread about the next election. I am exhausted from the slowness of our legal system and the emotional and financial cost to all of us from the 45th U.S. President’s excruciatingly painful refusal to take responsibility for his criminal acts and threats to the fabric of our democracy because he can’t put our democracy above his corrupted interests.We know of his egregious acts against our democracy and lack of integrity in business reporting including the latest 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up his seedy behavior.

Episode 363: Learning to Love the Voices In Your Head with Debbie Unterman

 Episode NotesToday is my 62nd birthday. This birthday isn’t monumental. We seem to emphasize birthdays ending with 5s and 0s; 65, 20, 35, and so on. A few months before a birthday, I naturally go inward, reflecting on the prior year in preparation for the upcoming year. I can say I am envigorated with this next phase of lifework.Matthew and I are in a great spot. We feel fantastic providing a retirement home for Letty, our new seven-year-old miniature Schnauzer. She keeps us moving with her fast-paced walking, and we give her lots of love. Olivia is finishing her junior year in college and carving out her life as an interdependent person. We know how to allow each other wings to fly.I have always viewed relationships and mentoring from a soul level. I am desperately learning to understand the voices in my head from the 6,000 thoughts we average daily and decipher relationships to fulfill a deeper reason for our connection. How can I best help another grow and evolve in their life’s work?Today’s guest mentor, Alchemical Hypnotherapist Debbie Unterman, wrote me the following lightly edited note after last week’s podcast conversation. “Nancy, you are an Alchemist in the way you use words! I'm serious. I just finished listening to Caroline Myss's video on the Alchemist archetype for the second time. These are some of the notes I took: Alchemy is about Language. What word do I choose?  Will I empower with my words?  How am I interpreting what I see and feel?  Carolyn says words trigger biochemical reactions in the body, so choosing your words and thinking wisely is important. I'll re-purpose many of your words.”  “Modern-day Master Alchemists,” Debbie writes, “have the ability to transform the disparate elements of human consciousness, such as confusion, envy, loneliness, and despair, into the gold of self-realization.” (p. 245)Our conversation naturally fortifies Debbie’s lifework, which is beautifully showcased in her book Talking To My Selves: Learning to Love the Voices in Your Head. Even though it was written in 2009, Debbie stands by its relevance today. Her book invites you to explore your unique identity, heal emotional distress, and find spiritual guidance within.We discuss her adult beginnings as a hippy in 1979 living amongst the tallest and oldest living things on earth, Redwood trees in northern California. Redwoods reach up to 380 feet in height and 18 feet in diameter; some are over 2,000 years old. Debbie says, “I wanted to get into building community and develop the best means of commerce, bartering.” Bartering movements have evolved since the 1970s. An example is the emergence of the first cryptocurrency BitCoin in 2009. The Federal Trade Commission calls Bitcoin electronic currency which has collapsed five times and is in need of regulation.We are fallible human beings and need regulations (boundaries) to protect ourselves from unethical and unconscious humans, including ourselves. That is why a sophisticated banking system, the Federal Reserve Bank, was developed to regulate the use of money among humans. Unethical entrepreneurs expose vulnerabilities in established systems. When vulnerabilities are uncovered, we have two options. Choose to grow and evolve the system with this new information, or dismiss what we learn and revert to letting our shadows take over the system. Debbie talks about a chapter in her book called the dark side of the Moon.Debbie spent nine years in northern California before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, where she has lived since 1988. While amongst the Redwoods and living on a piece of land deserted by loggers, Debbie met Dan Healy, an audio engineer for the Grateful Dead, who started an FM radio station in the mountains.

Episode 362: Debbie Unterman Answers the Bold Brave Call

Episode NotesDebbie Unterman gets hundreds of emails daily. What about John Kelly’s email, the executive producer of Bold Brave TV, caught her attention? Answering that email led to a one-year weekly online television show. We discuss this newest opportunity, its connections to her youth, and various other topics.Debbie Unterman is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Author, Mediator, Speaker, and Game Inventor; she likes to help people see things clearly in non-traditional ways. In her book, Talking to My Selves: Learning to Love the Voices in Your Head, Debbie describes an array of characters she says we all have rattling around in our brains, such as The Judge, The Rebel, The Victim, and maybe even a Ms. or Mr. Perfect. We talk about Ms. or Mr. Perfect.Early in Debbie’s career, she received a message from the Universe that her career would take off later in life. Can you imagine getting an astrological message in your early twenties like that? This is depressing news to get when you are starting your career. Maybe that is why Debbie loves baseball so much. Babe Ruth once said, “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” That has been Debbie’s view too. Every opportunity prepares her for the next opportunity.As a Master Alchemist and Trainer, Debbie’s been delving inside people’s heads for over forty years. She’s achieved proven results with clients suffering from PTSD, sexual abuse, depression, co-dependency, phobias, anxiety, lack of direction, sex and relationship issues, and much more.But even though she can help you work through your issues, she is very interested in creating a new paradigm of “Playing through your issues,” which is what she is doing with hundreds of people who are playing her monthly Transformational Board Games of “Clarity” and “Satori: The Game of Radical Forgiveness.”Debbie says, “Alchemical Hypnotherapy is an interactive trance process that helps people heal the root causes of emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological issues.” Debbie is a great therapist who brings out things you can’t expect to discuss. I didn’t expect to express a verbal agreement Matthew, and I made before we married in 2000.Debbie added Carolyn Myss’ Sacred Contracts and Your Archetypes book insights that expanded my understanding of the foundation of our marriage. Carolyn identifies another archetype, an alchemical archetype that fits with the astrological time we are in, the age of Aquarius. A time when everything is changing. Debbie uses an analogy of the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly I have never heard before. Take a listen. DOWNLOADIf you’ve ever tried to see the back of your head, the only way you can do it is by looking in a mirror. – Debbie UntermanDebbie and I met at a Mastermind event in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2017. This is our 7th podcast conversation. You might remember Debbie from other podcast episodes like Playing With Your Issues, The Best Advice I Ever Received, or Therapy For A New Future. You can find those and other conversations in the Episode Notes.To tune in to Love The Voices Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. (ET) or 5:00 p.m. (CT), 4:00 p.m. (PT), go to Bold Brave TV.   NEXT STEP After Listening: Challenge yourself and do the Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities, below.